Gallbladder Disfunction Causes Dizziness?

I got sick in 1992 and woke up with what I thought was a slight virus. I was extremely dizzi. I vomited and had a little diarrhea and low grade fever. I then would start waking up the same time every morning at 5am feeling sick weak, dizzi, unable to eat and started losing weight progressively. Went to gi dr. endoscopy showed just mild irritation of duodenum. Gallbladder hida showed a 17% ejection fracture. Went to hospital and surgeon pushed and pushed on gallbladder and said it is not my problem. Then diagnosed with a unusual colitis. No blood in stool so dr. thought it was crohns. He gave me iv steroids and I got ten times worse. Neurological symptoms got much worse. Muscles were twtiching in my face, my arms and legs would jerk involuntarily, I had difficulty breathing and swallowing, could barely walk, delusional wierd thoughts, still could not eat. After 3 weeks went home. Now no bowel movement 12 days. Went to hospital in nyc for exploratory surgery and found nothing said go home and play golf.
Laid in bed for one year so weak. Diagnosed with lyme disease but antibiotics felt like doing nothing. Diflucan helped me finally get off the couch. Immune system tests show body fighting something.
To make a long story end, I am still sick but have gained weight back but gallbladder recently still shows hida with ckk at 16%. I get pain between shoulder blades but not sure if from lyme affecting joint or referred pain. It does hurt when I bend and move. Feel best laying down. Feel very dizzi at times. In shower have to hold onto something washing hair with eyes closed. Afraid going to fall over. Also have rotten taste in mouth, bloating after every meal, distended abdomen and sometimes rigid, constipation for 3 days most then a week of diarrhea. Not sure if gallbladder making me dizzi. Then get episodes of rapid heart beat. Few days ago it was up to 140 a minute just laying on couch. Lasted about one hour.
Wonder if gallbladder is just poisoning my entire system. Anyone else very weak? I can not keep up with anyone walking. Have to lay down mid day. Mornings are always worse up arising. Wonder if lyme disease attacked my gallbladder or if something else is going on. Have been to the Mayo clinic and they can not tell me what this is. Also bad muscle cramps in feet. Cold hands, feet and cold and heat intolerance. I can no longer be in hot weather. Profuse sweating even with no physical activity.
Anybody out there like this would like to hear from you.

Hello,
Surgery to remove the gallbladder is the most common way to treat symptomatic gallstones. (Asymptomatic gallstones usually do not need treatment.) Each year more than 500,000 Americans have gallbladder surgery. The surgery is called cholecystectomy.

thanks!!

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I have been feeling no so good for over three years and blamed it on my hiatal hernia. Until three weeks ago I asked my doctor to send me for a abdominal ultrasound.
It came back mulitple stones.
My daughter age 22 just had hers removed and she had way different symptoms than I do, she was vomitting, bad pain in right upper stomach that she was hunched over miserable pain.
Me on the other hand no matter what I eat I get swollen stomach (disstension), upset stomach feeling, gas bloating, indigestion, upper chest pain, back pain, shoulder pain.
I have surgery scheduled for 3/25/11. I have been eating fairly good no fatty foods, chicken, rice, lowfat cottage cheese, soup, crackers well tonight I ate a pice of very fatty yummy cheddar/mozzarella string cheese and 3 crackers I got a sharp pain in my rest chest muscle and back like maybe 2 inches from my rib cage on right radiated into back.
I took 4 gaviscon thinking this was hiatal hernia/heartburn. It hurt more when I took deep breaths. Scared the c**p out of me.
I get dizzy but not spnning dizzy just like my heads not right and tired all the time.
all other tests ekg, heart stress tests, blood work all good other than gallstones.
anyone else feel like I do and gallbladder removal helped

thanks

wow i am not alone!!

I have been feeling dizzy at random the last few weeks.  Today when on the couch and when I tried to get up I felt I was about to pass out.  I have been having serious discomfort after I eat or drink.  I believe that I have gallstones.  I haven't gone to the doctor yet.  I am very certain for what I have read that the dizziness is related to Gallbladder problems.

Hello Everyone...This post is in response to the "Guest" poster who had also been treated for Lymes Disease and who also has a low ejection fraction on hida scan.  I have been ill for three years and my symptoms ARE IDENTICAL to yours! I mean identical! I nearly fainted when I read your symptoms. I have had numerous tests, scans, labs etc...even tests for carcinoid cancer!  Everything was fine with the exception of a liver hemangioma.

I feel this is absolutely gallbladder related! I am supposed to have the hida scan done but I am afraid to because of my constant dizziness. Today I woke at 4:30 am and was so incredibly dizzy...that I couldn't focus or get up out of bed. Nausea accompanied the dizziness. I even have seen a neurologist and had a brain MRI.

I have constant RUQ pain, below right rib, between and just below shoulder blades, upper stomach on right near sternum. I have leg weakness, total heat intolerance...turn bright red and sweat profusly, pin and needles in arms, neck and shoulder (more on right side) pain, nausea, tremendous burping, headaches etc....

Just hoping you are still following this post. I too, was given a course of steroids early on which only made my symptoms worse. Hope to hear from you and that you have found the answer and are well. Please. please respond...if you can! I need advice my doctor just keeps telling me to take priolosec! I have lost 13 pounds in the lst several months. Can't eat much of anything without terrible discomfort.

Hello- I have just read your symptoms, along with the others and find myself with such similar symptoms. I responded to another blogger about her Thrush, which is a tell tale sign of Candidyasis. Candida is a yeast that women know well, but what most don't realize is that it can get into the GI tract and eventually into the blood stream if you have leaky gut syndrome. I have had most of these symptoms every one has written about, dizziness, fatigue so that I have to nap, sweating, weird sensation in upper right quadrant, lump in throat and chest, etc. I'm taking a product called Candida clear, and a probiotic from Natures way-(it has to come from the fridge to be effective-no off the shelf stuff), along with a diet that is supposed to be strict if you want to starve the yeast. They feed on sugar, so everything that breaks down to sugar is off limits. Turns our the Atkins diet or Palio diet is good for it. I'm not as rigid as I should be though. It's boring, but I try harder than I used to. Meat and veg for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I also have been incorporating weekly Colon hydrotherapy to flush out the dead yeast cells. The toxins they produce while alive are bad enough, but the dead ones are just as nasty-think of mass graves. It may take months of self will to get your system back in balance, so stick with it. YOu won't dies without fruit, bread, or ice cream. Just hang in there as long as you can and don't beat your self up while you are weening yourself from these foods.Your doctor may not validate this so go the the health food store for your answers and google search Candida symptoms to get started. hope this helps.

Hello,

This is a reply to the guest who posted above and got sick in 1992. I have ALL OF THE EXACT SYMPTOMS that you are or have been experiencing. I am at wit's end....Can you please tell me if it was your gallbladder?...and if not, were you able to ever get a proper diagnosis? How are you doing now? I certainly hope the problem has resolved and you are healthy again. Would deeply appreciate hearing from you. I know it's been 7 months since you've posted. I believe it is my gallbladder but the ultrasound and CT scan were both normal. I have yet to have the hida scan...rather terrified of having it.

Thanks in advance for your reply!

I went to my doctor and got tests and she said GGT was slightly elevated, I had a fatty liver and there was really nothing wrong with me. Except that I am having the same symptoms as all of you. I went to a natural path, one who was treating me for something unrelated. He told me start out "DO NOT LET THEM TAKE YOUR GULL BLADDER". I was already on a diet as I couldn't eat much and I really healthed it up. He told me to take 3000mg of Vitamin C to help repair my gull bladder and the liver. Ensure I get enough protein, if you can't eat meats, look to whole almonds or other things. Any time I eat oils or fats I take Bile Salts. I am also on GMX which is a fibre supplement because I have constant constipation. I am also taking omega fish oil supplements. 

I have recently been disagnosed with Lyme disease and a coinfection called Bartonella. I had these symptoms (not as bad in the digestive system, but much worse in the neurological symptoms). It took me 12 doctors and 16 months to get a diagnosis. I had to go to an out of network Lyme Literate medical doctor to get diagnosed as no other doctor could figure me out. Don't let an infectious disease doc tell you that you will be cured in 28 days. It's not true for people sick with Lyme for more than a couple months, esp if you have advanced pain or neurological symptoms. Check out ilads.org to find Dr. Burrascano's symptom checklist and to get a referral to an LLMD near you. Treating Lyme successfully requires someone who knows what they're doing, including the complexities of the coinfections. Note: Look up Babesia as well. It is a parasitic coinfection of Lyme that causes excessive sweating, air hunger, brain fog, fatigue, and a few other symptoms.

One other thought, I have read of other unhelpful visits to the Mayo Clinic by people with Lyme. I think the Mayo Clinic is like many other really prestigious hospitals and research centers where the doctors are highly specialized. It doesn't mean they know anything about or have any experience with Lyme and the sometimes confusing coinfections.

I would not worry about the hida scan.  It your symptoms get worse with the test more than likely it is your gallbladder.  I feel I have
lyme disease or post lyme disease and a diseased gallbladder.  Have not had it out yet but will keep you posted.  Never heard of
anyone having same symptoms as me.  I am just fearful that if they take the gallbladder out I will still have the dizziness and other joint and neurological symptoms remaining.  I am also worried that I may not be able to eat or digest food without my gallbladder.  Maybe it is
poisoning my whole system and affecting my nervous system.  Will keep posting.  Seeing lyme specialist January 2012 soon.

Yes, I have had the same issues also quit smoking. So far nothing has helped, everyday seams like a struggle all though some days seams like it gets better and it always comes back. I've been tested literally for everything and still can't find what's going on. If you've found any information out please post anything. Thanks

I am going for a ct scan of the gallbladder soon. Will let you know

if it is good or has to come out.

Hi Guys,

 

I hope you all are feeling better, been officially diagnosed and still are active on this thread!

Yet again, I am just like you - Since 2007 been feeling almost faint(but not faint), dizzy/balance problems, brain fog(confusion), and have seen abd done many test, countless times of full blood works, MRI, CT, ENT, Neurology, Cardiology, ECG, EKG, Echocardiogram, Stress Test, Holter Monitor, 7-Day Patient Activated Recorder, Ultra sound on the abdominal(all clear, done a few times as well) and so on.  All have been clean.

HOWEVER since the first faint spells came about in 2007, I had noticed I had abdominal discomfort which went away, so I have worried less about.  But over this past month the upper right abdominal discomfort has returned and been consistent.  A few nights ago, I experienced shooting paints as well in the same area.

I will be having an Endoscopy and Colonoscopy done tomorrow morning to check the bowels etc.

 

Have any of you been officially diagnosed that all your symptoms are related to the GallBladder? and removing it has cured all your symptoms???